Monday, April 12, 2010

On launch day last Saturday, Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads—and users downloaded more than one million apps and more than 250,000 ebooks from the iBookstore. Parents immediately started snapping up picture book apps from Apple's online store. In fact, children's stories held six of the top 10 paid iPad book-app sales spots as of press time.

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Publishers and app makers are taking widely different approaches to the burgeoning app market, with some instantly jumping on the iPad bandwagon and others waiting to see how many moms and dads let their kids read stories on a $499 device.

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Titles currently available are Jack and the Box by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman and Little Mouse Gets Ready, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor book, by Jeff Smith.

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This is a collaboration between TOON Books and iStoryTime, a publisher of children’s storybooks for the iPhone.

Electronic media are a big part of children's books' present and future, although I don't believe they can replace the physical books themselves. The pages of a book can be much easier on the eyes than a computer screen!